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Leaders in Crisis Talks Over EU-Turkey Deal as Divisions Deepen

22 March 2016 6:36 AM

EU leaders have failed to pull together a common policy on immigration ever since the escalation of the crisis in 2015. Before then — even — thousands of migrants had been crossing the Mediterranean to find refuge in Italy and Greece, which had borne the initial brunt of the diaspora from warzones in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and other countries during 2013 and 2014.